TRN vs. GBX, WERN, JBLU, RXO, SBLK, AZUL, TNK, HUBG, DHT, and SFL
Should you be buying Trinity Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trinity Industries include Greenbrier Companies (GBX), Werner Enterprises (WERN), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), RXO (RXO), Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK), Azul (AZUL), Teekay Tankers (TNK), Hub Group (HUBG), DHT (DHT), and SFL (SFL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Trinity Industries (NYSE:TRN) and Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) are both transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Trinity Industries has a net margin of 3.55% compared to Greenbrier Companies' net margin of 2.97%. Trinity Industries' return on equity of 9.29% beat Greenbrier Companies' return on equity.
Trinity Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Greenbrier Companies. Greenbrier Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trinity Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trinity Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Greenbrier Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Trinity Industries pays out 88.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Greenbrier Companies pays out 35.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
86.6% of Trinity Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.6% of Greenbrier Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Trinity Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Greenbrier Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Trinity Industries has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greenbrier Companies has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Greenbrier Companies had 7 more articles in the media than Trinity Industries. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Greenbrier Companies and 4 mentions for Trinity Industries. Trinity Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Greenbrier Companies' score of 0.45 indicating that Trinity Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Trinity Industries currently has a consensus price target of $29.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.85%. Greenbrier Companies has a consensus price target of $54.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.78%. Given Trinity Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Trinity Industries is more favorable than Greenbrier Companies.
Greenbrier Companies received 30 more outperform votes than Trinity Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.30% of users gave Trinity Industries an outperform vote while only 60.98% of users gave Greenbrier Companies an outperform vote.
Summary
Trinity Industries and Greenbrier Companies tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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